Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-14

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for any child. The rest OF the day ought
to be devoted to recreation and pure fun.
But you can not begin too early the moral
culture of child, or on too complete a
scale. You can look back upon
what mighty impressions were made
upon you et i've Or six years OF age. On,
that child does not sit so silent during
YOUR conversation to be Influenced by it.
You say he does not understand. Al
though much of your phraseology is be
yond his grasp, he is gathering up from
YOUR talk influences which will affect his
immortal destiny. From the question he
asks you long afterward you will fad he
understood all about what you were say
ing. You think the child does not appre-
ciate that beautiful cloud, but its most
delicate lines are reflected into the very
depths of the youthful nature, and scora
of years from now you will see the shad-
ow of that cloud in the tastes and refine
ments developed. The song with which
you sing that child to sleep will echo
through sll its life, and ring back from
the very arches of heaven. l think that
often the
FIRST SEVEN YEARS
of a child's life decides whether it will be
irascible, waspish, rude, false, hypocrit-
ical, or gentle, truthful, frank, obedient,
honest and Christian. The present gen.
erations CT men will pass Off very much as
they are now. Although the gospel is
offered them, the general rule is that
drunkards die drunkards, thieves die
thieves, and libertines die libertines
Therefore to the youth we turn. Before
the. SOW wild oats etthem to SOW wheat
and barley. You fill the bushel measure
with good corn and there will be no room
for husks.
Glorious Alfred Goodman was convert
ed at ten years of age. At Carlisle, Penn.
during the progress Of a religious meet
! ing in the Methodist church, while many
were kneeling at the foot of the altar, this
bow knelt in a corner of the church all BY
himself, and said: "Precious Savior
thou art saving others-oh, wilt thou no
save me?" A Presbyterian elder knel
beside him and led him into the light
Enthroned Alfred Goodman! Tel
me from the skies, were yor
concerted too early But
cannot hear his answer. It is overpow
cred by the huzzas of the tens Of thous.
ands who were brought to God through
his ministry. Isaac Watts, the grea'
Christian poet, was converted at nine
years of age. Robert Hall, the gres'
Baptist evangelist, was converted 8
twelve years of age. Jonathan Edwards
| the greatest of American logicians, wa
converted at seven years OF age.
On for one generation Of holy men anc
women. Shall it be the next? Father
and mothers, you under God are to de
eide whether from your families shall e.
towards, inebriates, counterfeiters, bias
phemers, and whether there shall b
/ those bearing your image and carrying
your name fostering in the low haunts O
+ vice, and floundering in dissipation, AM
making the midnight of their lives horrl
t with q long howl OF ruin, or whethe
1 from
YOUR FAMILY AFFAIRS
!, shall come the Christians, the reformers
/ the teachers, the ministers Of Christ, tn
r icomforters of the troubled, the healer5 c
r the sick, the enacters Of good laws, tn
= founders of charitable institutions, and
great many who shall in the humble
e spheres of toll and usefulness serve Go
= and the best interests of the human rae
{ You cannot as parents shirk the respol
o sibility. God has charged you with
8 mission, and all the thrones Of heaven al
= waiting to see whether you will do you
e duty. We must not forget that it is NJ
Y SO much what we teach our children
o what we are in their presence. We wis
o them to be holler than we are, but Il
Y probability is that they will only be r
IS productions of our own character. &c
II man literature has much TO say OF e
d "spectre of Broken" Among tho!
a mountains travellers in certain condition
of the atmosphere see themselv'
,r copied On gigantic scale
l., the clouds. At first the trave
re ers do not realize that it
in themselves On larger scale. When tn
fe lift hand or move the head this monst
er specter does the same, and with such e
re largement of proportions that the scel
Ig is most exciting, and thousands have go
&c TO that place Just to behold the specter
ut Broken. The probability is that some
our faults which We consider small a.
d. insignificant, if we do not put an end
al them, will be copied on larger scale
of the eyes Of our children, and perhaps
We lated and exaggerated into spectral Oh
re portions. You need not go so far eff
is the Broken to see that process. I
ed first thing in importance in the educate
of our children is to make ourselves,
the grace of God, fit examples to
ey copied. TIE day will come when 2
I'd must confront that child, not in
IS church pew on calm Sabbath, but an
ur the CONSERVATION Of the rising dead q
RS the flying heavens and q burning Nor
to From your side that son or daught
O. bone Of your bone, heart of your hea
en- the fathers brow his brow, the mothe
lily eye his eye, shall go forth to an eterl
If destiny. What will be your Joy if at L
ng you hear their feet In the same colo
dy highway and hear their voices in
ed same rapturous song, illustrations, WI
gh the eternal ages last, of what faith